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Data Lovers’ Gift Guide 2018

Can’t figure out what to get that special data professional on your list? Back by popular demand, our Data Lover’s Gift Guide helps you choose the perfect gift for that data analyst, visualizer, engineer, BI pro or data scientist on your list. Happy shopping!

BOOKS

Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information By Manuel Lima Perfect for the visualization enthusiast on your list. Manuel Lima, the Design Lead at Google and data viz teacher at Parsons, shows us how to beautifully draw meaning from huge sets of data. This seminal 2011 work may have become even more relevant over time.

Ten Signs of Data Science Maturity by Peter Guerra & Kirk BorneData science should be a way of doing things, not a thing to do. This O’Reilly publication can help your data professional measure, improve and elevate data science in your organization. And guess what? It’s free!

Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi & Stephanie Posavec The visualization of the everyday in the form of postcard art — it’s really the only book in its genre. A visually compelling correspondence between friends about their daily lives, in infographic form.

COURSES

Edward Tufte CourseAt 76, the man is still writing and teaching. Reviews are excellent for this one-day course, but your data designers may need to travel, so be prepared to lose them for a day or two.

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